Mauritania - IOM Mauritania this week organized a capacity-building training in counter trafficking for 24 police and gendarmes officers in the capital, Nouakchott.

The training included lectures on the nature of human trafficking, prevention of trafficking, identification and protection of victims, and prosecution of traffickers.

“I learned identification technics that I did not know before and this will help me for my work in the field. For example, I understood the importance of body language to recognize a potential victim or a trafficker,” said one gendarme officer.

Future trainings will include a programme for police and gendarmes in Nouadhibou in the north of the country next week. IOM will also offer training to magistrates to enable them to prosecute trafficking cases and to journalists to raise awareness of the crime.

The trainings are part of an IOM counter trafficking project funded by the Federal Republic of Germany.

For further information, please contact IOM Mauritania. Flavia Giordani, Tel: +222-48156284, Email: fgiordani@iom.int or Momme Helly Ducros, Tel. +222-45244081, Email: mducros@iom.int